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Some of the leading voices of modern atheism—the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher, and Sam Harris—tend to view people of faith as closed-minded fools, writes fellow atheist S.E. Cupp in the Daily News. But with their smug condescension, she thinks they're the ones guilty of the charge. "The militant atheist wants nothing more than to spoil the believer's spiritual journey," she writes. "That's both meanspirited and radically unenlightened."

For them, the issue is settled, and the only thing left to do is ridicule. "It's these snarky and condescending rejections, not of faith itself but of those who profess it, that reflect a total unwillingness to learn something new about human nature, the world around us and even of science itself," she writes. "While the neoatheists pay only cursory attention to dismantling arguments for God, they spend most of their time painting his followers as uncultured rubes." Try a little humility, she suggests.

Yes, today's well known atheists are far too smug. They keep using words like "good" and "evil" without any real justification, and have not followed their atheistic assertions to their logical conclusion, unlike real atheists like Nietzsche did.

JGN25

Jan 4, 2011 12:25 PM CST

Is there anything more smug than the deeply held belief that you are on favorable terms with a sentient being who created the entire cosmos, that you are made in that being's image, that this being designed the universe with you in mind....and that anyone who disagrees with you and doesnt believe all this is a person with no morality living an utterly meaningless life who is doomed to burn forever in hell after they die while you ascend into an eternal paradise?

Naked_Emperor

Dec 31, 2010 3:15 PM CST

Explaining "Faith" to people that do not have it is like trying to explain to your dog why you have to leave them at home while you go to work. It is just not possible.